Elevated Error Rates, 2014-02-27
Severity: Major
Category: Dependencies
Service: npm
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Overview
npm blog has been discontinued. Updates from the npm team are now published on the GitHub Blog and the GitHub Changelog. Elevated Error Rates, 2014-02-27. Due to the same Manta HAProxy FD-leak bug that we were affected by 3 days ago, there were 5 minutes where we saw a spike in error rates from tarball fetches.
Impact
spike in error rates from tarball fetches
Trigger
Manta HAProxy FD-leak bug
Detection
Our alerts caught it (just slightly before Joyent's own alerts, in fact!)
Resolution
Jacques pushed a config change to Fastly that will always route tarball requests to a functioning Manta backend, even if one of their (several) backends is unreachable.
Root Cause
Manta HAProxy FD-leak bug